Informed Crypto News

Thailand’s police want an Interpol red notice issued for Benjamin Mauerberger, an alleged money launderer for the South Asian scam industry.

Polymarket trades about the next supreme leader of Iran illustrate the wild gambles that crypto traders are willing to make.

The advisory agreement between Davis and Milei was discovered on a suspect’s phone during the country’s ongoing LIBRA investigation.

TRON Inc. has essentially become a vehicle for Justin Sun to purchase hundreds of millions of TRX tokens to prop up his personal crypto.

Kalshi apparently allowed traders to bet on Ali Khamenei’s ousting, racked up $54M in trades, then voided the result when he was killed.

Iran’s largest crypto exchange, Nobitex, is experiencing issues with its Tether/Toman trading pair during a 700% surge in outflows.

Crypto markets have been penalized with downside volatility amid historic levels of US margin debt relative to income.

Chinese nationals are reporting that putting “Bitcoin,” “Dogecoin” or “USDT” in the memo field of a transfer causes the account to be frozen.

Tether has never been in a better place than it is right now, at least in the US. But in China, it’s a very different story.

Hackers took control of scrap-metal billionaire Adam Weitsman’s X account to post a forex trading scam and a fake NFT crypto project.

Crypto Capital Corp wound down after $850M was seized sometime between late 2018 and early 2019, but the ramifications continue to be felt.

New research from ETH Zurich and Anthropic has demonstrated the power of AI agents to deanonymize crypto wallets using social network posts.

Ploutos Money used the BTC/USD price for USDC, leading to $400K of ETH being lent against just $8 of collateral.

Crypto sleuth ZachXBT suggested that his Axiom investigation may lead to legal proceedings against the alleged insider trading group.

Shares of CEA Industries had already lost 98% of their 2018 peak by the time it pivoted into a BNB treasury stock. Then it got even worse.

The inquiry questions Binance’s commitment to a 2023 plea agreement and is demanding details related to Iranian sanctions.

The committee called for a ban on political crypto donations linked to crypto mixers, and for funds to be converted to fiat within 48 hours.

When BTC was above $84K, Strategy founder Michael Saylor said, “sell a kidney if you must, but keep the BTC.” Yesterday, BTC hit $63K.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Binance fired staff who had uncovered Binance accounts sending $1B worth of crypto to Iran.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies Chairman Tom Lee has lost more of his investors’ money buying ETH than FTX lost on behalf of its customers.

Justin Sun-founded AINFT which advertises itself as the “Biggest NFT Trading Platform on TRON” has only $6 in volume.

Terraform Labs says Jane Street used group chats and planted a former intern to extract insider information and profit from Terra’s collapse.

Strategy might be able to survive until BTC hits $8,000, but common shareholders will lose hope in treasury coverage in the $20,000s.

Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes — known as El Mencho — led one of the most powerful cartels in Mexico before he was shot dead by police.

The attack on a lending pool belonging to YieldBlox pushed the price of USTRY to over $100 before using it to borrow XLM and USDC worth $10M.